BP's recently released "BP Energy Outlook 2030" report claims that a dramatic rise in new unconventional sources of oil -- tight oil, tar sands and NGLs -- will solve the "peak oil" problem. These new ...

Lin Lee-chen, doyenne of Taiwan choreographers, had already retired from the stage a quarter century ago at the height of her fame. But, within the past decade, now well in her 60’s, she has “felt ...

Today, the B.C. government joined Indigenous leaders and representatives from environmental groups and the timber industry to announce the finalization of a 19-year effort to protect the Great Bear ...

Road closures and designated traffic lanes, plus 250,000 Olympics visitors in Vancouver spell massive reshuffling for commuters this month and next. Fifty-thousand motor vehicles cross the Cambie ...

The recent news about the execution-style killing of 100 dogs in Whister, B.C. brought back the memory: sledding through the backcountry on a brutally cold morning with beautiful dogs. My son kept a ...

Three new wives, sex addiction, a newly-constructed nose and hot drama on Season Two of The Real Housewives of Vancouver. Brace yourselves, ya'll.

A curmudgeonly has-been fills the patchwork projection screen, ranting on about the appalling decline in – well, just about everything that matters: public discourse, idealism, empathy, grammar.

The B.C. government has just approved a "precedent-setting" gravel mining project along the Fraser River, which conservationists say will have a devastating impact on one of only two known spawning ...

Last week I showed how global warming was changing Vancouver’s January weather. Today, I show the major climate trends across all our months. Annual rainfall in Vancouver has increased by about half a ...

We live in a world of media. We are bombarded with advertisements of airbrushed models that are a size zero and dying to be fed a steak. We live in a world of fat blaster and biceps on top of biceps ...

British Columbia coastal residents have a pressing need for greater control as to how the federal government decides on approvals for natural resource export. We have seen in recent years, the loss of ...

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